Critical Space by Greg Rucka

Author:Greg Rucka [Rucka, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Bodyguards
ISBN: 9780553581799
Google: o86r8L-EqVYC
Amazon: 0553581791
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2001-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

She didn't know her real name, the one she'd been born with. At the orphanage in Magadan, she'd been called Alena. Alena Cizkova. But because Oksana Zurkowska had read a book on Egyptian mythology, and because in that book there were pictures, and because Oksana thought the picture of Osiris's bride bore a slight resemblance to the small girl she liked to tease, the other children in the orphanage called her Isis.

She'd been put in the orphanage quite young, she told me, and all she knew of her parents was that they must have both been negligent. She remembered being perhaps only two years old and a man with a beard putting his cigarettes out on her back. She didn't know why he did this, and she thought that perhaps the man was her father.

Then the State came and took her to the orphanage, and she stayed there until she murdered Oksana.

"I had wanted her dead," she told me, "the way that children want their tormentors dead, and so I plotted it, and so I stole her life."

It was the shirt that had given her away. The old drunk who tended the boilers in the orphanage basement saw her trying to stuff it in the furnace, and he had stopped her and seen the blood, and had held her while a search was made for Oksana. When the girl's body was found, one of the wardens beat Alena in the body until blood came out of her mouth. Then the police were called.

She said they questioned her for several hours and that she didn't say a word. She was placed in a cell with men three and four times her age.

When she got to that part, she bent to pet the dog. After several seconds, she added, "That was a bad night. I will never allow another night like that."

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